News and Events
2006
FALL 2006
Workshop on Accountability in Global Regulatory Governance
November 17
The Global Administrative Law Project convened a workshop with Law Professors Grainne de Burca (Fordham), Fabrizio Cafaggi (EUI), Jerry Mashaw (Yale), John Ferejohn (Stanford/NYU), Ryan Goodman (Harvard), Robert Kagan (Berkeley), Rick Pildes (NYU), Jeremy Waldron (NYU), Joseph Weiler (NYU) and other faculty, visiting fellows, and students. Students presented case studies of accountability issues in five global governance regimes: UN Security Council anti-terrorism sanctions; Montreal Protocol on ozone layer depletion; WTO GMOs and Beef Hormones; World Bank Yacyreta project; and the International Standardization Organization. These provided a focus for discussion of a set of papers on theoretical issues.
Careers in International Public Service Law
November 13
Lawyers from Amnesty International, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, and the Center for Reproductive Rights discussed their career paths and specific strategies for the international job search.
Lecture on Looted Baghdad Art
November 9
Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, author of the highly acclaimed book, THIEVES OF BAGHDAD, in a lecture illustrated by over one hundred photographs from Afghanistan to Iraq, documents the theft and looting of the Iraq Museum in April 2003. Colonel Bogdanos, an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, provided an account of his team’s recovery of thousands of history’s most priceless antiquities, and comments on the black market in stolen antiquities.
New York University School of Law, Tishman Auditorium (Vanderbilt Hall). Royalties from Thieves of Baghdad go to the Iraq Museum.
Annual Emile Noël Lecture
October 30, 2006
Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), delivered the Annual Emile Noël Lecture entitled ‘Making Trade Work for Development: Time for a Geneva Consensus?.’ The lecture was sponsored by the Hauser Global Law School Program and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at NYU School of Law.
UN Panel Discussion
October 26, 2006
United Nations
Panel Discussion on the UN Security Council as World Executive, co-organized by the IILJ and the Austrian Mission to the UN.
Second Annual Lecture on Transitional Justice
October 25, 2006
Justice Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, delivered the Second Annual Lecture on Transitional Justice.
Co-sponsored by the Law School's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and the International Center for Transitional Justice.
Launch of The Handbook of Reparations
October 23, 2006
Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke at the launch of the new Handbook of Reparations. Other speakers included Philip Alston, Professor, NYU School of Law, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice; Paul van Zyl, Program Director, International Center for Transitional Justice; Samuel Issacharoff, NYU School of Law Professor of Constitutional Law and contributing author, The Handbook of Reparations; and Pablo de Greiff, Director of Research, International Center for Transitional Justice and editor of The Handbook of Reparations.
Lunchtime Discussion
October 23, 2006
Sir Kieran Prendergast, the UN Under-Secretary for Political Affairs from 1997-2005, discussed the role of the UN in international conflict resolution.
IILJ Welcome Dinner for Scholars and Visiting Fellows
September 18, 2006
UN Oil-for-Food Inquiry Conference
September 6, 2006
Speakers included Paul Volcker (Chair of the Inquiry) and Richard Goldstone (Member of the Inquiry Committee), and senior staff. Sixty IILJ scholars and NYU students took part.
SUMMER 2006
Global Public Service Lawyering
July 17-28, 2006
Budapest, Hungary
Two-week course offered by the Global Public Service Law Project at NYU, in partnership with Central European University.
Viterbo II Global Administrative Law Seminar
Viterbo, Italy
June 9-10, 2006
SPRING 2006
IILJ Scholar Event for current and prospective students
Selected Problems in United Nations Law: State-Building, Governance, and Accountability
April 20, 2006
David Harland, Chief of the Best Practices Unit of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and Bruce Jones, Co-Director of the Center on International Cooperation, led a discussion on the UN experience of state-building, including the prospects of the new Peacebuilding Commission established in December 2005. Moderated by Simon Chesterman.
Further information about State-Building
IILJ Lecture Series: The Fragmentation of International Law with guest speaker Martti Kosekenniemi
April 3, 2006
Conference on Existing and Emerging Legal Approaches to Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
March 31, 2006
Speakers included Brazilian Ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, President of the 2005 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference; and Dr. Christopher D. Ford, Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation, U.S. Department of State.
Convened by the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.
Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
March 29, 2006
This conference, organized by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, featured outstanding new research papers by NYU Law students and visiting fellows.
IILJ Conference on the Regulation of Private Military Companies
March 24, 2006
IILJ Conference on the Role of the UN Secretary-General
February 24, 2006
Forum on Suicide Terrorism
February 23, 2006
Convened by the Center on Law & Security, NYU School of Law.
Community Conversations: Exploring Issues of Civic Responsibility
January 9, 2006
Guest speakers Justice Albie Sachs and Vaness September discussed the history and transformation of South African and its relevance to issues in the U.S.
International Law and Human Rights Fellowship Program Seminars
Spring 2006
